# Better late than...

Ninoles, Fabien: DGSE (ninoles.fabien@ic.gc.ca)
Thu, 22 Aug 1996 07:02:45 PDT

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    From:  Bill Drury[SMTP:bild@io.com]
    Sent:  Wednesday, August 21, 1996 5:34 PM
    To:  MOO Mailing List
    Subject:  Better late than...

    One really useful thing that allowing foo.bar="burfle" to implicitly call
    set_property_value(foo, "bar", "burfle") and foo.bar to implicitly call
    get_property_value(foo, "bar") (and thus to allow for wrappers) would be
    the ability to easily implement 'inflatable' objects, i.e. objects whose
    data is stored out of the MOO database somewhere until it is actually
    needed.

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    I have to agree with him... This just let the MOO
    be more Object Oriented let us override some
    operator... More of that, this let us add some security
    check (or anything else) on a propriety without having
    it to be -c... But keep in mind to leave it simple.